(1) The pattern is familiar: vested interests rage against change and do their best to strangle it by cynically invoking such shibboleths as tradition, the family and the sanctity of Sunday.

(2) Business is telling us that an assembly would strangle growth.

(3) An urge to strangle the older girl was suppressed.

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(5) They allowed bureaucracy to strangle initiative

(6) If it were true, it would strangle any hopes for better relations with the United States.

(7) Overrestrictive policies that strangle growth

(8) Why should excess consumption strangle economic growth?

(9) When I get my hands on her, I'm going to strangle her until her neck is two inches thick!

(10) The strategic struggle for Afghanistan was a fight to strangle the other's logistics.

(11) I wanted to grab her by the neck and strangle her.

(12) In Wharton's world, other people and the rigid expectations of stratified society conspire to strangle individual happiness.

(13) Dougal thrust Gino backward into the wall, his fingers tight around his neck, literally strangling him.

(14) I had to severely restrain myself from strangling her right there and then.

(15) And it's here where the strangler may be hiding.

(16) He strangled the urge to bang his head backwards.

(17) Tielle sat up in bed, her mouth open, a strangled cry escaping her throat, sweat dripping from her.

(18) Alex's cold hands went to Michelle's neck, and strangled her for dear life.

(19) Arin felt a lump form in the back of his throat, a strangled gasp being all that could escape.

(20) His family acquired wealth beyond their wildest dreams and a measure of power that still strangles the development of democracy in Chile.